Edir - the Essential Guide

This EDiR guide has a practical rather than a theoretical focus, and is intended as a reference tool for potential EDiR candidates who would like to gain a better understanding of the EDiR examination. A pool of experts has made every possible effort to create a single source that contains everything needed to successfully pass the EDiR examination. Times have changed, and there is certainly a new generation of radiologists who will find this cutting-edge tool a “must-have” to familiarize themselves with the examination quickly and easily.

The book is divided into the following main sections: one chapter for each subspecialty; one chapter on Safety, Management and Imaging Procedures; another on Principles of Imaging Techniques and Processing; and lastly, one on Management. This structure follows the same pattern as the EDiR examination, which is based on the European Training Curriculum (ETC) for Radiology released by the European Society of Radiology (ESR). 

Each subspecialty is covered using the same basic structure: Multiple Response Questions (MRQs), Short Cases (SCs) and CORE Cases from one of the most recent EDiR examinations. Students will thus be able to see all the questions from a recent examination and learn from the answers and comments provided by our pool of experts. 

Clinical cases as electronic supplementary material complete the book, and links to EDiR preparation sessions are also included, allowing students to improve their knowledge of specific areas.

Judith Babar became Chair of the Written Evaluation Committee of the EDiR in 2018, having previously taken on the roles of coordinator and thoracic team leader (2011-2016).  After completing her radiology training in Birmingham, UK, Dr Babar undertook a thoracic fellowship in Vancouver, Canada under the direction of Dr Nestor Muller. She was appointed as a Consultant Thoracic Radiologist at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in 2007, and is the lead for thoracic imaging. She is currently an examiner for the Final FRCR Part b for the Royal College of Radiologists, and an Associate Lecturer for the University of Cambridge, where she teaches radiology, supervises on anatomy, and serves as a facilitator on the professionalism course for undergraduates.  Dr Babar’s chief interests are in interstitial lung disease, COPD and primary immunodeficiencies. She has authored or co-authored 30 peer-reviewed papers on a variety of thoracic diseases, and is a member of the Bylaw Committee for the European Society of Thoracic Imaging. 

Oguz Dicle has been a Professor of Radiology since 2000, and is one of the pioneers of digital radiology in Turkey. He chaired the Department of Radiology at Dokuz Eylül University from 2001 to 2013. He is also interested in medical informatics and has chaired the Department of Medical Informatics at the Health Sciences Institute at the same university since 2004. Professor Dicle also has extensive experience in both medical and radiology education. He worked as the Vice Dean of the School of Medicine for six years. In this period his faculty was the first in Turkey to convert its curriculum to a problem-based learning approach.  He was the President of Turkish Board of Radiology from 2004 to 2010. Prof. Dicle served in several committees of the ECR, e.g. the Education Committee, ETAP and EDiR Scientific Board. His main areas of interest in radiology are abdominal radiology, interventional radiology and mammography. Prof. Dicle has authored or co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific papers and several book chapters.

Hildo J. Lamb is a Professor of Radiology and Director of the Cardio Vascular Imaging Group (CVIG) at Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands. He is actively involved in scientific research in the field of non-invasive cardiovascular and body imaging, with a main focus on the development of cardiovascular MR imaging techniques with fast conversion to clinical application, including 3D imaging, fast acquisition techniques and MR spectroscopy. His main research interest is currently in diseases related to obesity and diabetes mellitus. He is the principal investigator for a large multi-center European study on liver steatosis, and recently received a substantial grant from the Dutch Heart Foundation for the RADAR study on earlier detection of aortic aneurysm and rupture risk.

Professor Lamb has published over 300 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He is deputy editor of cardiovascular imaging for J Magn Reson Imag, and is a board member of the Dutch Society for Radiology (Science and International Affairs). He is the Dutch representative to the UEMS (European Union of Medical Specialists) Radiology Section, serves on the Scientific Board of the ESR for EDiR, and is a member of the Cardiovascular Scientific Program Committee for the RSNA.

Laura Oleaga became EDiR Scientific Director of the European Board of Radiology (EBR) in 2018. She attended the School of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, and completed her radiology training at the Hospital Donostia in San Sebastian. Following her graduation, she trained as a Research Fellow in Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and subsequently completed her PhD at the University of the Basque Country. In 2009, she was appointed Chair of the Radiology Department of the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona, where she had previously worked as a neuroradiologist. 

She has served as a Professor of Radiology at the University of Barcelona and has been involved in many research projects. Her main scientific interests lie in the fields of Neuroradiology and Head and Neck Imaging, and her research focuses on clinical applications of imaging. Prof. Oleaga has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and nine book chapters. Additionally, she is an active educator at many prestigious universities, scientific meetings and courses, as well as an active member of many scientific societies and organizations. From 2002 to 2006, she served as Vice-President of the Spanish Radiological Society (SERAM), and from 2006 to 2008 as Chair of the Scientific Committee of SERAM. From 2015 to 2018, she was Chair of the Education Committee of the European Society of Radiology (ESR).

Fermín Sáez is Associate Professor of Radiology (Medical School, University of the Basque Country) and Section Head of Paediatric Radiology at the Universitario Cruces Hospital, of Osakidetza (Public Health Service of the Basque Country), in Barakaldo, Vizcaya, Spain. He completed his MD at the University of Cantabria, Medical School, in Santander (Spain), and did his residency training in Diagnostic Radiology at the Universitario Cruces Hospital in Barakaldo, Vizcaya, Spain. After earning a PhD degree in medicine from the University of the Basque Country in 1990, he spent one year as junior staff (Pediatric Radiology) at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. His main scientific interests lie in the fields of Pediatric and Musculoskeletal imaging and his research focuses mainly on imaging in clinical applications. He is an active teacher at many scientific meetings and courses, and an active member of several scientific societies and organizations. He was President of the Spanish Society of Pediatric Radiology (SERPE, 2011–2013) and was part of the Communication & External Affairs Committee of the European Society of Radiology (2008-2012). He has been involved in the EDiR since 2012, and is currently the Chair of the CORE part of the European Diploma in Radiology.